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'A Penny for Your Thoughts, Wally'
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EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1955
'Sons of Great Men All Remind Us
In San Francisco recently a reporter
discovered a newspaper butcher named
Chester A. Arthur. He asked the obvious
question and, sure enough, the man
hawking papers was the grandson of
Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the
United States. Thus is written another
chapter in the book from which our revo
lutionary ancestors got the idea that an
American monarchy was a poor idea.
The progeny of presidents have, with a
few exceptions, been a commonplace lot.
Where, indeed, are the Washingtons and
the Madisons, the Jeffersons and the Lin
coins, the Jacksons and the Clevelands?
If the Adams family be excepted,
there are few "great families" which
have played brilliant roles in our his
tory. This has not always been because
the sons of presidents have been no
bodies. Some didn't have sons. Our 33
presidents have sired 73 sons and 41
daughters. However, Washington, Madi
son, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan and Hard
ing had no children. Monroe, McKinley,
Wilson and Truman had only daughters.
Jefferson's only son died in infancy.
Robert Lincoln, the only Lincoln boy to
live to adulthood, had only daughters.
(For what it's worth, our baby-hav-ingest
president was John Tyler who
had 14.)
It's loo soon to assess the future promi
nence of families who have occupied the
White House recently. However, various
Itoosevclts are always going to Congress, or
trying to; and Herbert -Hoover Jr., is under
secretary of state. Whether Margaret Truman
will be an opera star, and whether John
Eisenhower will be a big general like his old
man are questions we can't answer now,
Robert Lincoln, who married the
Pullman Sleeping Car Co., was secretary
of war for Presidents Garfield and Ar
thur, and was "mentioned," but not very
loudly, as a possible Republican candi
date for president in 1884, 1888 and
1892. James R. Garfield, son of James
A., was secretary of the interior for
Teddy Roosevelt. Charles W. Bryan,
brother of William J., was vice-presidential
candidate in 1924, but met the fate
his brother met in three previous elec
tions. George Washington's chief heir
Polio Tests
Some people are worrying, apparent
ly prematurely, over the results of the
Salk polio vaccine tests conducted
among U. S. school children last year.
More than 2,000 Lane County school
children, now third-graders, were in
volved in the nation-wide field trials of
the new vaccine which scientists hope
will provide a permanent immunization
against poliomyelitis. The results of the
tests are to be announced sometime this
spring, but from one source only. That
is the Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center
at the University of Michigan where all
the data from every field trial center has
been sent. There, under the direction of
Thomas Francis Jr., the results are be
ing studied in code so that no informa
tion can fall into the hands of anyone
who might release a portion of it, per
haps giving a wrong, and harmful inter
pretation. Dr. Arthur P. Martini, president of
the Lane County Medical Society which
helped conduct the test here, has as
sured us that no polio cases have been
reported among those second-graders
vaccinated in Lane County. According
to the Lane County Health Department,
there were only 34 cases of polio in the
county during 1954, the lowest incidence
In several years.
Scientists have high hopes for the
vaccine, but they say it will take several
years of study before they can deter
mine whether the vaccine is a perma
nent guard against polio. The results
from Michigan this spring will be only
an indicator.
Death of a Daily
Another daily newspaper has sue
" cumbed. The historic Brooklyn Eagle,
published continuously since 1841, and
once edited by the great Walt Whitman,
will not go to pess again according to
Publisher Frank D. Schroth.
The paper, the only major daily in
Brooklyn, has been struck since Jan. 28,
by the American Newspaper Guild (CIO).
Eight other unions respected the picket
lines. The Guild, composed of editorial
and business employes, demanded a
$5.80 package increase spread over two
years' but the publisher offered only
$2.40, claiming the paper could not meet
was a nephew who bore the unlikely (
name of Bushrod Washington. He'
served 31 years on the U.S. supreme
court.
Tom Cleveland, Grover's grandson
and a Princeton football player, is a
missionary in a remote part of Alaska.
, The Harrison family is somewhat ex
ceptional and the Adams family is quite
exceptional. Old William Henry Harri
son was succeeded 48 years later by his
grandson, Benjamin who served without
distinction and failed of re-election. Also
failing of re-election was John Adams'
son, John Quincy, who had been a fine
secretary of state but who was no great
shakes as president.
But there were other Adamses, and an
illustrious tribe they were. John Quincy's
son, Charles Francis, was vice-presidential
candidate for the Free Soilers in 1848, and
ran first on the first ballot at the Liberal
Republican convention in 1872. But he lost
the nomination to Horace Greeley, which was
probably just as well since Greeley got smoth
ered by U. S. Grant. Meanwhile' Charles had
gone to Congress and had served as ambassa
dor to England during the Civil War. He also
produced three illustrious sons, Charles Fran
cis, Henry and Brooks.
Charles Francis Jr., was vice-presidential
candidate for the Democrats in
1872 the same election in which his
father was almost nominated by the Lib
eral Republicans. Another son, Henry,
went with his father to visit the White
House in 1850. Writing of himself later,
he recalled that he "half thought he
owned it, and took for granted that he
would some day live in it." Henry was
a Harvard professor and a historian.
Brooks wrote, too. Writing was a failing
common to the Adams family.
The elder Charles Francis had a
grandson, also named Charles Francis.
He was President Hoover's secretary of
the Navy. A great family, the Adamses.
One of the reasons the Adams family
is so great is that it is so exceptional. It
is really more noteworthy when a Presi
dential descendent attains prominence
than it is when one is found hawking
Examiners on the streets of San Francisco.
the increased costs in the face of losses
sustained during 1954.
For the people in Brooklyn it as
sumes the proportions of a catastrophe.
They can and do take the big Man
hattan dailies but they will never be able
to replace the local flavor and interest
of the hometown paper. The Eagle, with
a circulation of only 130,000 was obvi
ously in a tough spot. Yet it was paying
its Guild staffers salaries close to the
highest of any Guild members in the
country.
It cannot be logical that the strike
was the only cause for the Eagle's
troubles. All the newspapers in New
York City are in a competitive battle
for survival and something had to give.
Nevertheless, it is apparent that the
strike pushed the Eagle over the brink.
No income for 44 days was too much. It
would seem the spectre of two Philadel
phia newspapers, the Record and the
Ledger, which both quit during Guild
strikes, would have loomed large. Now
630 newspaper people ate out of work.
And worse, a community of more than
2 million is without a hometown voice.
Welfare Racketeers
It has not been our good fortune to
meet Mrs. E. A. Gall of Lebanon. But
sometime we'd like to meet the house
wife who risked attacks on herself and
her family in the course of exposing
chisclers on the public welfare rolls. She
must be a remarkable citizen, not unlike,
we like to think, some of the people who
contribute to our Mailbag alert, inter
ested, not afraid to put themselves on
record on controversial issues.
Her testimony before the legislative
joint ways and means committee in
Salem this week didn't reveal much new.
However, she still performed a service.
She called public attention to a racket
that may or may not be prevalent. Even
if it occurs only here and there, it should
be brought to pcbOc attention.
Off hand, we think there is merit in
her suggestion that recipients of wel
fare aid be held to an accounting of how
the money was used. We don't want to
see a return to the days of "the dole"
wheuyt was shameful to be "on relief."
We tion't want the noses of the unfortu
nate rubbed in their misfortune. But it
is of public concern that "welfare
racketeers" be brought to book. ?
MM
Boost in European Defenses
Pushed by U.S. Authorities
i A1 I
IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
Letters to the editor should he
limited to not more than 400
words and must bear the nam.
and address of the writer.
cated and closer in to town than QJgJ Hand
Mahlon Sweet. Also, we have
quite a large investment in this FALL CREEK (To the Editor)
field which is all private money Please allow me to extend to
no taxpayers money. With a you a GLAD HAND for the fine
Be Like Nevada?
EUGENE (To the Editor)
Taxes, taxes, taxes! All we read
about is how they are going to
collect more taxes. 1 believe tlie
people of this state have reach
ed the saturation point on taxes.
Now, our lawmakers say "we will
go right ahead and drown them."
We have repeatedly voted down
any form of a sales tax. No go.
They are attempting and they
will put on 2 cents a pack for
cigarettes. Not long ago we voted
down any local tax on cigarettes.
We pay a natural Federal In
come Tax, O.K., and a rather
healthy Slate Income Tax. Also,
O.K. But the boys at Salem say,
"no, you don't get away with that
any longer. We are going to soak
you more. And the next time the
leaders of this fine state of ours
overspend the budget, we will go
after you again." Some have
even, suggested, "let the wealthy
man pay the bill."
That is not fair. Just because
a man has had brains enough, or
was lucky enough to get some
moola for the future, why make
him pay the bill. And, of course,
break him. Industry would col
lapse and we would be in a more
leaky boat than we are now in.
If the homeowners of this state
would constantly add more and
more to the cost of running their
homes, in a few years we
wouldn't have any homes. If we
run our jobs with a total disre
gard for the bosses' success,
blessed quick he would have
someone else on that job. It
seems the leaders of this state
don't give a hoot now how much
they spend of what they haven't
got. It looks like it is high time
for the voters to tell them to
stop it.
In the past, the majority of the
people of Oregon voted to legal
ize gambling, namely, horses and
dogs. Don't ever think you can't
lose your shirt on cither one. As
gambling is already legal. I
would say to run this state like
our neighboring state, Nevada.
Let the suckers pay the bill.
Then the leaders of this state
could spend to their hearts con
tent. In 3 years time we would
be loaning money to other timid
over-spending bankrupt states.
The "antis" wail that it would
bring in gangsters: That's O.K.
They only shoot each other any
way. Good riddance. In the end
the taxpayer is the man who
really wins. "
Strangely, I have always be
lieved that democracy meant the
majority shall rule. Docs it? Our
local nabobs say, "we don't want
anyone in Oregon to have horse
racing or dog racing but Multno
mah County." That in itself
seems a little odd to mc, as the
people of Oregon voted to make
this form of gambling legal in
all of Oregon. Why then, only
Multnomah County?
Sincerely.
CORY P. HUNTINGTON
little more expenditure to oil
the runways, this could be as
nice a field as any flyer would
ever care for.
I don't think that Mahlon Sweet
field is the answer at all for
private flying because no private
setup that you carried in the
Guard on March 12 for Evangel
ist Billy Graham. This old sin
cursed world needs "that boy."
I have a real and deep interest
in The Eugene Register-Guard,
due to a long association with it
flyer likes all the restrictions through years, and that gesture
mm are uuuna iu come on a pleases me very much. I thank
field where the airliners, begin- you.
ners just learning to fly and the v sincerely
private flyer are all thrown in ' .,,.
together. From what flyers I MINNIE LEIGH
have talked to, I don't think
they want to go to Mahlon Sweet
field and I don't think they ry . ri ,
should back the City on it. As UueCl 1 nreat
for the taxpayers to back it as lrnrirvi? ,T ,
you say-you hope they will-but EUGENE (To the Editor)
I don't agree to that either, and 1 have ln the Past referred to the
I have my doubts if they can "invisible government" in Wash
see going to Mahlon Sweet field ington as a direct threat to our
and spending seven or eight national welfare. It caused some
hundred thousand dollars. resentment, but now comes Sen
One year ago we offered tof ator George of Georgia in a
sell the City our field which con- speech and he says, "The federal
sists of one hundred and twenty government did not create the
three acres, two graveled run- states. The states created the
ways, one office building and a federal government with proper
60x60 all metal hangar for a reservations to protect their
letter
of the
WASHINGTON (NEA) An
American plan for greater de
fense mobilization effort in West
ern Europe is now being urged
on the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization coun
tries. While this idea
has not been pre
sented to the Eu
ropeans in spe
' cific preparation
for the day when
U. S. military aid
to NATO will be
further cut down,
the net effect is.
the same. Edson
It has been pointed out to the
NATO countries that if a new
European war should break out,
Atlantic shipping would be much
more hazardous than it was in
.World War II.
It would therefore be extreme
ly risky for the European de
fense forces to depend on the
United States for supplies of new
military equipment, spare parts
for repairs and ammunition to the
extent they have been relying on
America in the past.
This action was taken at a
meeting of NATO's "High Na
tional Production Authorities" in
Paris at the end of January.
NO NOTICE
. It received no notice at the
time because the closed meeting
came just when news from For
mosa and the China coast was at
peak interest.
Originally, Dr. Arthur S. Flem
ming, director of the U. S. Of
fice of Defense Mobilization and
sponsor of the new NATO de
fense mobilization plan, was to
attend the -Paris meeting. Because
he is also a member of the U. S.
National Security Council he
could not leave Washington dur
ing the Formosa crisis.
ODM's Deputy Director Victor
E. Cooley, board chairman of
Southwestern Bell, St. Louis,
went instead. He was accompan
ied by Thomas P. Pike, assistant
secretary of Defense for Supply
and Logistics. Chairman of the
meeting was Lowell P. Wcicker,
ex-president of Squibb, who has
been assistant secretary general
of the international staff at
NATO for the past two years,
erable basic work.
MOST OF THE PLANNING has
been done for 'the needs of the
14 individual countries, however,
and not for the coordinated re
quirements of European defense
in case of war.
Cooley and Pike, presenting
reports on the American de
fense mobilization program,
stressed the importance of stock
piling, industrial dispersion, du
plication of production facilities
for critical items and civil de
fense planning. Steps to be takes
in case American sources of sup
ply should be cut off were also
emphasized.
NATO production authorities
are now understood to be con
sulting with their governments
on further steps to be taken to
meet the American proposals.
FIRST 5 YEARS
If this plan for a new, coordl
nated defense mobilization plan
in Europe should be adopted by
NATO, it would, in part, take the
place of the arms pool produc- w.
tion plan suggested by the for- "
mer French premier Pierre Men-des-France.
It would also supplement the
arms control agency plan pro
vided in the Paris agreements of
last October for the resumptiion
of arms production in Germany,
its rearmament and its admission
to NATO.
JUST HOW MUCH PROGRESS
has been made in, European . de
fense planning is revealed for
the the first time in Lord Is-
may's new report on "NATO
The First Five Years 1949-'54."
Copies of this document, largely
written by Lord Ismay himself,
have just been received in Wash
ington. '
Armed forces of the 14 NATO
countries have risen from 4 to 7
million men. Military budget
figures have risen from $18 bil-
lion to $63 billion a year. Forty
per cent of this last amount, or
$25 billion, now goes to defense "i
production.
U. S. military aid to NATO
has been over $30 billion in the
5 years.
Individual defense budgets for
1953 latest figures made pub
lic are: U. K. $5 billion, France
$4 billion, Canada $2 billion, Ita
ly $769 million, Belgium $400
million, Netherlands $350 mil
lion, Turkey $320 million, Nor
way $149 million, Denmark $129
million, Portugal $69 million,
Greece $92 million, Luxembourg
$10 million. The total is roughly
$13 billion, or over 11 per cent
of Europe's $113 billion gross
national product.
HAL BOYLE
Dogs Hold Age-Old Secret
Of Cure for Aching Backs
how
sum ol $4U,uuu, which 1 think sovereignty." I have
most anyone would agree is a from a state eovcrnnr
very fair figure. With another deep south in which he writes,
$25,000 spent on this field, it
would have certainly been
"The action of the supreme court
in the school segregation matter
much better deal for the private js most unfortunate, for it lays
flyers than Mahlon Sweet. We the foundation for a complete
had no response from the City bureaucracy in Washington."
at all on this offer although it Mis Opal Tanner in watching
would make a suitable place for Washington thinks we have a 50-
the flyer and saved the City 50 chance of saving our republic
thousands of dollars. Well, lets from dictatorship,
let the taxpayers take it from T thlnt e..,!.
here and see if they want to ih( Tu r,i,i ..
ihn r;t nn I i,o hLh ovr,,n rlSht. The federal government .
tell you
Boyle
back the City on the high expend
iture at Mahlon Sweet field.
trying to devour its creator. Sen
ator Brickcr has pointed out a
flaw in the Constitution concern
ing treaties. I have called his at
tention to another one which I
believe is equally dangerous to
our republic. The appointive
powers of the President are too
big. Can we safely trust our na
tional destiny in the hands of
the Supreme Court and the At-
tomPV C.pXpvz' T wmiM u nn
ns uus is me nine xor uie easier because those men are merely
ROWLAND H. BEVENS,
480 W. 22nd,
Partner in Willamette Air Park.
Work of Love
EUGENE (To the Editor)
Seal Drive to aid Crippled Chil
dren, I thought it timely to men-
appointed as political favorites.
They should have bt?en elected
tion that the Children's Hospital u '.,u"
. , . . , , , gauntlet of public opinion and
School is in need of more volun- show where , stand Danid
leer workers, also. Boone nad to run ,ne gauntlet
It is true, there are various several times, between two rows
clubs and organizations which of Indians, each hitting him as
send members as volunteers, but he passed. He proved himself to
this call is to the women who be a real man.
are not members of such clubs,
but who would like to do their
bit just the same.
Neither should the members of
the Supreme Court be elected
for life. Ten years should be
The volunteer program re- enough. Why should a man be
quires no special talent or train- allowed to make a court decision
ing, and they only ask that a half affecting the lives of millions
day each week be set aside by while he may be old and feeble,
the volunteer so that the School dying on his feet, with one foot
can depend on ner neip mai oay. in the grave?
Possibly some volunteer only
give a half day every two weeks,
but at any time they can give
is most welcome and sincerely
appreciated. For those who can
and will give more time, the
"substitute list" can always use
another name or two.
Now comes word that the U.N.
Commission on human rights has
voted 18-2 against the right to
own private property. How do
you like it, brother? I have said
before that if wo once get good
and mad we will kick the U.N.
across the Atlantic, like we did
Can't Agree
EUGENE (To the Editor)
ln regards to your article on
one good airport on February 24,
1955, I truth.ft.jly say 1 cannot
quite agree with you and your
ideas. You say the private fly
ers should get behind the City
and back them on moving to
Mahlon Sweet field. I don't
think so. We have a private
field which is very suitably lo-
The work is not hard as long the Lcaaue of Nations irr 1920
as the old adage "many hands and I am glad that I was there
make light work" is borne out, to give it a hard kick. Congress-
and it is truly a revelation to man Burdick has introduced a
note the wonderful way the chil- bill to that effect, but it may
dren are handled by the excel- take an awful fight since Eiscn-
Icnt slatf of teachers, physical hower has tangled us up with so
and occupational therapists, many treaties and stupid "agree-
nurses and doctors. ments," that getting out of the
If you like kids, you'll love all U.N. will be much like a poor
of these, so come on, girls, (no1 fish getting out of a net. We may
age limit if you can lift a handa, have tiPbecome a nation of sea
kerchief, they can use you' lioti and break the net. Since
you'll really GET much more out the U.N. can't even get our pris-
of helping, than you'll ever have oners out of Korea, they Tiad
to GIVE. It's soul-satisfying, to hotter fold it) and dry up. O
say the least. , $n, for , Ted5y Roosevelt in
Sincerely. lhc whi,e House!
JOY BELLE JONES DORVIN DUDECK
1852 Washington. Rt. 5.
NEW YORK Wt An open let
ter to Dr. James A. Tobey, of
Newton, Conn.:
Dear Doc,
I just want to
much my back
ache has improv
ed since I took
your hint to quit
walking upright
and start run
ning around on
all fours.
It has made
such a change in
ny life you'd
hardly recognize
me as the same
man.
For years my poor aching back
had caused me intermittent trou
ble. But I could never track down
the real reason for it.
Then, some weeks ago, I came
across an article by you in "To
day's Health." published by the
American Medical Assn. You
listed poor posture as among
some 58 possible causes of back
ache. "Standing erect may help dis
tinguish man from the apes, but
it certainly lets him in for a lot,
of trouble," you wrote. "The hu
man skeleton is not particularly
well adapted to this upright posi
tion, except possibly during that
relatively brief time of youth
when man Is more or less lean,
lithe and buoyant.
MONTH OVER
"For most of the rest of his
life, this erect posture has made
man prone to pains in the back
and other ills which might not
occur if he ran on all fours."
Was this the answer to my
problem? I decided to go about
on all fours for a month to find
out.
The month is over. I am happy
to report that not only has my
backache largely disappeared, but
my sinus is cured. My vision has
improved so much I have thrown
away my glasses. My appeUte is
fine and I have lost 15 pounds. I
feel like a tiger except at work.
Since most of your readers prob
ably lack the courage to try to
remedy a backache by going
around on all fours, I'd like to
give fcou a case history of what
happened to me and the predic
ament I now find myself in.
HARD ON ARMS
First of all, I asked my wife
if she had any objections t my
making so drastic a change in my
everyday posture. She said she'd
have to sec how I looked. I
promptly got down on all fours.
"why you look much better that
way," she said. "It hides your
stomach." , '
The first few days I ran around
on all fours only at home, or in
my immediate neighborhood late
at night. My tCck and arms hurt
terribly, and every Ume iQried
to go faster than a dogtrot I fell
on my face.
But as my muscles strength
ened, my shape thinned down,
and the callouses thickened on
my palms and fingertips, I found
I could gallop around the block
without getting tired.
For some reasons the dogs I
met in these early nocturnal
training ramblings resented my
four-limbed posture. I had fights
with a police dog, a dachshund, 2
fox terriers and a French poodle.
Oddly enough, the poodle put up
the best scrap. I had one devil of
a time proving to him I was the
better man.
For comfort going about on
all fours I find the best costume
is loose-fitting slacks, a sweater,
open shirt, tennis shoes for trac
tion, and a cap. My hat kept
falling off and showing my bald .
spot. T-
REDUCES DRINKING
The first time I climbed Into
the bus on all fours to go to work
I felt a mite self-conscious. I was
afraid of being stared at. But
after a startled first glance the
other passengers made room for
me to read my newspaper on the
floor, and paid me no more heed.
You have to do more than get
down on all fours to attract at
tention in Manhattan.
The same thing is true at cock-
tail parties. My new iposture
actually has reduced my social
drinking. For when I lope up on
three limbs to my host, holding
up my glass for a nip for the
road, he looks down as if seeing
me for the first time, and says,
"Really, old fellow, don't you
think you've had enough?"
Once you get the habit of trav
eling on all fours you find it hard
er to give up than smoking. The
other night, coming home on all
fours as usual, I saw a golden j
full moon rise, and felt a sudden
intoxicaUng desire to lift up my
head and bay at it. Isn't that nat
ural Doc?
It isn't my posture that gives
me backaches now, Doc. It' the
rule-bound posture of civilization
and it causes most of our head
aches as well as backaches. How
are we going to cure people of
civilization, Doc?
Hopefully yours,
Hal Boyle.
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